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Originally Posted by johnnyshaka
How often is this situation going to come about? What you're describing is essentially every other bench player save for your big bat has been used before the bottom of the 9th or extra innings? I think that is pretty unlikely unless we're dealing with injuries or ejections and if that's the case, then all bets are off. But, if the manager has burned his only backup(s) for the more skilled positions before using his big bat, then I'd hang that on the poor management for either using his bench inappropriately or else not building a better bench.
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I agree with you that my reference to the 9th inning may be off-base, but in todays game with 12 and 13 man pitching staffs it is very likely that in an extra inning game with some runs scored that you will be down to the catcher and one or no other PH on the bench. For an NL game two PH and a PR puts you right there. I'd say that could happen 10-15 times a year. YMMV.
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